Hi,
A collegue of mine have managed to get brown E.coli lin239 colonies on
solid media. I didn't know that E.coli under certain circumstances could
produce brown pigments. Is this new to you too, or is this common
knowledge? The plate had quite large concentrations of m-toluic acid.
Trond Erik
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Trond Erik Vee Aune
Department of Biotechnology
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Email: trondaun at REMOVETHISBEFOREREPLYING!!biotech.ntnu.no
http://www.biotech.ntnu.no/molgen
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